... Though, Pvt.Ryan was not a real person his story is based on families that served in the war. One family was the Sullivan brothers who all died on ship when it sank. Another family was the Nilands, four brothers, three were reported dead and the family began searching for the fourth brother. Later another brother escaped from a Japanese P.O.W. camp. Pvt. Ryan's unit was real ... , the 101st Airborne Division. So was their mission, "In Departing from Portland Bill on the English Coast, the 101st and 82nd US Airborne Divisions were dropped on ... the Cherbourg Peninsula. From that point, ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Gump and how he makes a very good job of it. We first see Tom Hanks (Forrest) when he is walking down the path with Jenny (his best friend). Suddenly, the bullies come round the corner in a car and start chasing him. Jenny tells Forrest to run. As this happens you feel a sudden sense of fear ... the way he saves everyone until he finally finds Bubba, who is very badly injured. Bubba eventually dies. Tom Hanks plays this part so well that you actually forget that he is acting. He makes you think that you are watching a true story, and Bubba is really dead. Forrest later on meets the Presid...

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• Grade Level: High School

... why the Army decides to rescue the last surviving Ryan brother. After that the film is related to the experiences of the "Niland brothers of Tonawanda, N.Y., whose parents learned over the course of the summer of 1944 that two of their sons, Preston and Robert, had died on D-Day and that their oldest son, Edward, was missing in action and presumed dead in the Pacific. Meanwhile, the youngest ... Niland boy, Fredrick, a paratrooper, was fighting somewhere in Northern France." The Army began to a search for Fredrick, and sent ... him back to the U.S. But he was in a Japanese POW camp. "H...

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• Grade Level: High School